Re: pod identification

At 09:20 PM 10/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Glen and all of us hosta pollenaters!! While this tech. will take you
>a lot of time at the start you can save time with it later. Go find
>a pop can (alum) and cut the top and bottom off of it. Be careful here
>easy to cut your pinkies!!!!!! Next rub the curved part of the pop can
>on the edge of the counter to flatten out the sheet of alum. Then cut
>the can into strips of one inch wide and the long length of the alum.
>sheet. Then take a paper punch and punch a series of holes on one
>side of the strip of alum. Next, cut the sheet into rectangles that
>are 1" x 3/8" with a hole in one end. Finally take sissors and round
>all four corners of you tag. Two steps to go. Take a ball point pen
>and sequentially number your tags 1, 2, 3, 4,-102, 103 ect. Besure
>and press real hard into your tag as we want the indentation not the ink
>here. Final step. Use WAXED dental tape (flat). Cut off lengths of
>12" in length. First, tie a knot between the two loose ends (leaving
>about 1/2 to 3/4 inches left out past the knot). Finally, attach the
>knotted floss to the tag by putting it half way through the paper
>punched hole in the tag, and looping it through the remaining portion of
>the floss (so as to connect the floss to the tag without having to tie a
>second knot).
>
> Place these tags, in groups of 20, into a coin envelope. Just to keep
>them in groups for your data sheet later. The day that you decide to
>pollinate take a sheet of paper on a clipboard with you to your
>flowers. On your sheet of paper simply record the name of your pollen
>parent and below that list all of the numbers on your tags that you use
>with that pollen. Simple, easy. Back inside your home set up your
>spread sheet where one column has sequential numbers [1,2,3,4,-89,90,
>etc] find yourself the corresponding number, then move over to the
>pollen parent column and enter the name that is above your number from
>your field clipboard. presto.
>
> To collect these tags after the appropriate 3 months cut the stem that
>connects the pod to the scape and remove the tag. The tags should
>always be around the flower stem never the scape especially in tight
>flower clumps. The extra benefit of this tech. is two fold. First
>when you collect the pod, the tag and the pod both go into a coin
>envelope marked with pod parent and date collected and off to the next
>pod. Second when you clean the pods record the pod parent to your
>spread sheet next to your already listed pollen parent including the
>date collected. Save the tags then because with the waxed tape it wont
>weather or rot and is ready for next year!!!!! If your tag tape is too
>tight around the stem of the pod pull the 3/4" end and it will easily
>pull off (it's waxed). Sorry this took so long if other questions
>let me know. We all should discuss spreadsheet set ups !!!!!! later
>doug
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>u get the prize for slick invention
indianabob
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